GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quench | put out |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| broach | brooch |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |